Improvement in corsets



E. LE' GLSMITH,

Corset.

Patented Nov. 27', I877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

EMMET LE e. SMITILOF JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

IM PROVE-M ENT IN CORSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,677, dated November 27, 1877; application filed July 30, 1877 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMET LE GRAND SMITH, of the city and county of Jackson, and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Corsets, of which the following is a specification:

The object I have in View is to enable the wearer to adjust the breast-supporting bands inside the bust-forms of a corset without removing the corset for that purpose; and it consists in leaving one end of each band free, and p'rovidin git with two cords to pass through holes in the bust of the corset, to tie on the outside thereof in order to eflect such adjustment, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a front perspective view, showing a portion of a corset with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a rear perspective View,

In the drawing, A represents the corset, made with the usual bust-forms A, inside of which there is a broad web-band, B, to support the bust away from and out of contact with the bust-form. One end of this band is sewed to the side seam of the bust-form, and the other is provided with two cords, b b, which pass through eyelets a a in the corset, and are tied on the outside thereof.

By means of these cords the band may be adjusted to support the bust, as desired, without removing the corset.

What I claim as my invention is- The combination with the bust-forms A, of the bands B, extending across the same, and secured by cords b, passed through the corset,

and tied on the outside, whereby the said' bands can be adjusted without removing the corset, substantially as described and shown.

EMMET LE G. SMITH.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, H. L. AULL's. 

